Publish or Perish: What the Competition is Really Doing

ABSTRACT

This study provides comprehensive publications performance data over a 25‐year period for finance doctorates. These data indicate
that publishing one article per year in any finance journal (or finance, accounting, economics, or business journal) over
any prolonged period of time is a truly remarkable feat, met by only 5% of the graduates. Tenure screens combining various
quantity and quality requirements are examined to assess their ability to predict future publication productivity. Faculty
and administrators seeking defensible benchmarks for evaluating faculty research productivity in finance will find that these
data and results are particularly useful.